Bug 153318

Summary:	x11-wm/fvwm-2.5.18 problems with UTF8
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	fafvxcqvicha
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) <taviso>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	minor	CC:	desktop-wm+disabled, seventhguardian
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description fafvxcqvicha 2006-10-29 09:46:12 UTC

Hello,
when using FVWM with UTF-8 Locale enabled, fvwm displays an error:
[FVWM][convert_charsets]: WARNING -
	Invalid byte sequence during conversion from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

This bug happens mainly when using such programs like firefox and browsing some pages wich are not in utf8.

Also there is a simple fix for this problem (works on amd64 fine) which was found on http://fvwm.lair.be/viewtopic.php?t=1402

The fix is really simple, you just need to replace line:
FLCXOMCharset = FLCXOMCharsetList[0]
with this one:
FLCXOMCharset = FLCXOMCharsetList[FLCXOMCharsetList_num-1]

in $Fvwm_src/libs/FlocaleCharset.c file before compiling fvwm ;)

Comment 1 Renato Caldas 2007-01-20 18:56:28 UTC

Can you please check if this still happens with 2.5.19?

Thanks.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-26 11:34:49 UTC

Try w/ >=2.5.19